September
25
World Pharmacists Day
The
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) strongly encourages
all pharmacists and their associations across the globe to participate
in World Pharmacists Day on 25 September. This year’s theme
is:
“Access
to pharmacists is access to health”
For many
years, FIP has recognized that access to medicines is a major
issue in many parts of the world and pharmacists play a key
role throughout the whole supply chain towards improving access
to medicines.
However, access to medicines itself will not result automatically
in optimal health outcomes.
September
25 : World Maritime Day
World Maritime Day for 2014 is Thursday, 25 September.
The theme
for this year's World Maritime Day "IMO conventions: effective
implementation" was chosen in order to provide an opportunity
to shine a spotlight on those IMO treaty instruments, which
have not yet entered into force, as well as those for which
ratification by more States and more effective implementation
would yield significant benefits.
Events
275 – In
Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims
Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona
is beheaded in Amiens, France.
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking
invasions of England.
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at
the Battle of Nicopolis.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would
become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles
V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first
newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first
and only time.
1775 – Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting
to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the
same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set
off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada
(1775)).
1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United
States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment
(which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment,
and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand
one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll
for moving further upriver.
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican
city of Monterrey.
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is
shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of
Russia.
1890 – The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd,
Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention
of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the
shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is
founded in New York, New York.
1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from
Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take
off to landing is possible.
1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25,
1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish
refugees.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne
Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending
the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable
system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated
by the use of United States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is
mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies
the next day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally
proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional
government.
1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation is signed.
1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting
triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
1972 – In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership
of the European Community.
1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of
the Chicago Marathon.
1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air
with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting
in the deaths of 144 people.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in
as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
and the first woman to hold the office.
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with
6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way
out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since
WWII and in British history.
1992 – NASA launched a $511 million probe to Mars in the first
U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later,
the probe would fail.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia,
Russia.
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō,
Japan.
2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
2009 – U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance
for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear
enrichment facility.
2010 – Mahmoud Abbas speaks at United Nations General Assembly
to request that Israel end its policy of building settlements
in the West Bank.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique)
Christian Feast Day:
Abadir and Iraja and companions (Coptic Church)
Cadoc
Ceolfrith
Finbarr
Sergius of Radonezh (repose)
September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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